Ebook Creation Tips
[private].[/private]eBooks are one of the easiest digital products to produce for several reasons:
* All of the research can be done online
* You can get eBooks that already have “rights”, such as private label rights, which allows you to sell the eBook as your own with minimal turnaround time
* You can take knowledge that you already have, put it down on paper, and sell it very quickly online
These are just a few of the many reasons eBooks are so popular online. You will find that selling eBooks in certain niches is much more difficult than in other niches. For example, you will find a ton of competition if you intend on selling an eBook about how to sell eBooks. However, if you find another niche such as the one we used as an example earlier, “cat grooming”, the competition with other internet marketers selling related eBooks will be slim to none!
Once you are ready to create your eBook and have gone through the described processes of selecting a niche, you have many options.
You can create the eBook in a few different formats to include .pdf, .doc, or .exe.
I suggest .pdf since it’s the most easily accessible by the widest audience.
I have no experience creating .exe eBooks and I personally don’t like or trust using .exe versions from other marketers. I also suspect that many people are suspicious of .exe eBooks because of all the potential there is for viruses, spyware, adware, and more inside of an executable file.
Options for creating your .pdf ebook (the suggested method)
There are several ways to create an eBook on your own without outsourcing the creation process to a freelancer as described in the “Outsourcing” section.
One of the more popular methods of creating an eBook is by using a program called Open Office.
Open Office is 100% free and makes creating an eBook a breeze since you can include active hyperlinks (which allows differing anchor text and display text in hyperlinks – a hard to find feature with .pdf creators), one click publishing to .pdf, and a very easy to use interface similar to Microsoft Word.
You can download Open Office by visiting their site:
There are also a lot of other popular programs for getting your ebook into .pdf format. Another very popular application for creating .pdfs is called pdf995, which you can learn more about here:
Click here to visit the PDF 995 website
You may want to hire a professional writer to help you with the creation of your eBook. Professional writers can be found using the oustourcing techniques that we already covered in the “Outsourcing” section of the PFG Pro area.
However, sometimes when you’re first starting out the thought of spending money without a GUARANTEED return can be scary. Now, entrepreneurs must be risk takers to really get anywhere, but the great thing about selling digital products is that with very little training and practice you can create the actual PRODUCT yourself.
Granted, the product will not be as good if you had hired a pro. You must think though, what a nice option to be able to create the product myself and save money! With what other business startup is this possible? None that I can think of.
If you decide to write your ebook yourself…
You don’t necessarily have to be a professional author or have a master’s degree in creative writing.
You will need to be able to get your thoughts across in a clear and easy to understand matter. Here are some tips for writing your own eBook that I have learned from my experiences in creating digital information products:
** Keep your paragraphs in small, easy to digest chunks. No one wants to read great big blobs of text and besides, seeing more than about 4-5 sentences in one paragraph makes the whole paragraph seem like it’s going to be a pain in the butt to read! Take a look at this paragraph for example? Don’t you think that this paragraph looks disgusting just by the way that it seems so long and annoying to read compared to all of the other paragraphs on this page? I hope you get my point and I’m going to try and resist the strong urges I’m having to go back and insert a few line breaks into this big, loooooong, ugly monster of a paragraph. It’s so ugly that I hope that most people don’t skip it altogether and understand that I made this paragraph long and ugly on PURPOSE to get my point across. Long paragraphs stink, so don’t do it! Make your paragraphs short and informative so that people will be more likely to read them without getting lost in mountains and labyrinths of ugly text!
** Organize your thoughts and ideas before you start writing. You probably hated doing this in English class, but try learning how to effectively outline your writing before putting pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard for that matter!
** Be sure to go back and proof read you are writing thoroughly. Run a spell check and try to get a friend or family member to look over your work. It’s very easy to overlook your own mistakes, but a proof reader, even if it’s an inexperienced one, will be able to pick out your errors (both grammatical and spelling) much more easily than you can.
** Put some sort of order to your material (i.e. if you are writing a how-to book, put the steps in chronological order). If you are telling a story you don’t start in the middle do you? Present the material in a logical and easy to follow manner and you shouldn’t run into problems with confusing your reader.
This sounds like a lot of “tips”, but most of this stuff we all already know how to do. Sometimes a little reminder is helpful though and I wanted to give you a bunch of little reminders to make sure your eBooks are fun to read.
If you’re eBook is written like crap or is difficult to understand, then you’ve wasted a great deal of your own time and money producing the project because your refund requests will be high! Having a good website and offer will make you money – having a good product will let you keep it!
